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proclaim

[proh-kleym, pruh-]

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verb (used with object)

to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.

to announce or declare in an open or ostentatious way: to proclaim one's opinions.

to indicate or make known publicly or openly.

to extol or praise publicly: Let them proclaim the Lord.

to declare (a territory, district, etc.) subject to particular legal restrictions.

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to declare to be an outlaw, evildoer, or the like.

to denounce or prohibit publicly.

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verb (used without object)

to make a proclamation.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin prōclāmāre to cry out. See pro-¹, claim

Related forms

pro·claim·er, noun

re·pro·claim, verb (used with object)

self-pro·claimed, adjective

self-pro·claim·ing, adjective

un·pro·claimed, adjective

Synonyms
1. advertise. See announce. 2. promulgate.

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Example Sentences

Then courts can justifiably proclaim that ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Their letters of recommendation proclaim that each is outstanding.

Virtually all nations proclaim allegiance to global markets.

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Then courts can justifiably proclaim that ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Their letters of recommendation proclaim that each is outstanding.

Virtually all nations proclaim allegiance to global markets.

Gulls hug the shores and proclaim themselves monarchs of dock pilings.

The irony of your position is that it can be used to justify all the horrors you proclaim regarding civil rights.

Verichip likes to proclaim that their chips are no more sinister than electronic barcodes.

Of course, colleges proclaim that they offer financial aid, but it's not really that at all.

London has never used its built environment to proclaim a sense of change.

Jesus came to set the captives free yet some refuse to investigate the way out of the solace they proclaim to be in.

Haiti is not yet at the point where the people can defiantly proclaim democracy.

They want to take what they've learned in the lab and proclaim it in the park, or wherever else people will listen.

Love the way you and the other deniers righteously proclaim you know better.

C'mon, let's not have a power-trip over this and proclaim ethics from the ivory tower.

Physicists run this progression backwards and proclaim that the proton-sized universe must have been incredibly hot and dense.

More of us need to stand up and proclaim the truth here.

Signs in many confiseries proclaim diabetiker truffles and chocolate tortes made without sugar.

Its leaders proclaim peace and war in the same breath, and pretend to practise.

Even though the scientific research goes both ways, the industry continues to proclaim its innocence.

Frederick said the banner was a nonsensical message and that he intended the banner to proclaim his right to say anything at all.

So the poker sites loudly proclaim that automated play is no big deal.

Some are blatant propaganda, but all enhance the status of the currency, proclaim the wealth of a bank or the glory of a nation.

It is so difficult that the reactionary forces around the world proclaim that there are no limits and no consequences.

Al-Qaida will surely proclaim imminently that it's merely transitioning into its next phase.

Adeva is a gospel-trained belter whose songs proclaim her independence while her lung power makes listeners believe.

Chinese officials-Xinji's included-often proclaim that high growth is crucial for social stability.

Sculpture and artificial grottoes proclaim devotion to the.

One man would stand at the lectern and proclaim the word until his voice gave out and a replacement stepped in.

It s not because they proclaim that it emerged out of truly.

Think of it as a fast lane for people willing to proclaim that they are trustworthy and have nothing to hide.

If leaders would only listen as often as they proclaim.

It is a line that exists only in the minds of those who proclaim that unlike all other living.

Gold never provided the straight jacket on credit expansion that gold bugs today proclaim or that mainstream economists condemn.

They do not state what they ethically should proclaim in part because of educational debts that they also must carry.

If someone dares to criticise them for some failing, they proclaim this criticism to be anti-semitic, and start to play martyrs.

Noon is when the sun reaches its highest point in the sky not when some idiot wants to proclaim it is noon.

It's not because they proclaim that it emerged out of truly.

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World English Dictionary

proclaim (prəˈkleɪm)

—vb
1.	(may take a clause as object) to announce publicly
2.	(may take a clause as object) to show or indicate plainly
3.	to praise or extol

[C14: from Latin prōclāmāre to shout aloud]

pro'claimer

—n

proclamation

—n

proclamatory

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

proclaim

c.1400, from L. proclamare "cry or call out," from pro- "forth" + clamare "to cry out" (see claim). Proclamation "that which is proclaimed" is recorded from 1415.

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